The Dog and How to Breed, Train and Keep Him: Containing Articles on the Breeding, Training and Keeping of the Dogs, as Well as the History, ... and Also a Chapter Upon Disease, Illustr - Hardcover

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The dog has been the faithful and constant companion of man from the very earliest times. He is supposed to have been the first of the animal kingdom domesticated, and when the greater proportion of the earth's population subsisted from the fruits of the Chase, his instincts, as a hunter, were relied upon almost entirely to furnish food. The dog is mentioned by Homer in his poems, and is pictured upon the Egyptian monu ments which have been standing for over five thousand years. Thus, for centuries, the dog has been the well-tried assistant of man, in guarding the flocks and herds, and even the master himself has relied upon the prowess of his friend. His sagacity, fidelity and usefulness are too well known to every one to be repeated, though it may be said that he surpasses, in intellectual qualities, even the semi-human elephant.

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